The Night Horseman vs While the Billy Boils: Which Should You Read?

The Night Horseman Frederick Faust · 1920 ★★★★☆ 3.7 262 pages · ≈ 4 h 51 m · Challenging

Doc Byrne was too smart for his own good. His overstuffed brain strained his underdeveloped body to the brink of collapse until the only cure for him was to leave big city life and head west. At the edge of the…

While the Billy Boils Henry Lawson · 1905 ★★★★☆ 3.8 272 pages · ≈ 5 h 02 m · Challenging

“You remember when we hurried home from the old bush school how we were sometimes startled by a bearded apparition, who smiled kindly down on us, and whom our mother introduced, as we raked off our hats, as "An old mate of your father's on the diggings, Johnny."”

While the Billy Boils collates Henry Lawson’s most well known short stories of the 1890s, originally published in a variety of Australian and New Zealand newspapers—most prominently the Sydney Bulletin. Lawson presents…